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Tomson Highway in Concert with vocalist Patricia Cano and saxophonist Marcus Ali

June 3, 2023 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Tomson Highway, award-winning playwright and the author of The Rez Sisters, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Rose, and Kiss of the Fur Queen, was born in a tent near Maria Lake, Manitoba in 1951. A full-blood Cree, he is a registered member of the Barren Lands First Nation, the village for which is called Brochet. He earned his music degree and a Bachelor’s of Arts from the University of Western Ontario. He achieved national and international recognition in 1986 with his sixth play, the multi-award-winning The Rez Sisters.
For many years, he ran Canada’s premiere Native Theatre Company, Native Earth Performing Arts, in Toronto, out of which has emerged a generation of professional Native Theatre artists. He now splits his time between homes near Sudbury, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec.
His latest book, a memoir titled, Permanent Astonishment won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction and was named a Globe & Mail Best Book.
He was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1994 and is also the winner of the 2022 Governor General’s Performing Arts Award.

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Date:
June 3, 2023
Time:
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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St Paul’s Centre
62 Peter St N
Orillia, L3V 4Z1
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